I Have posted this issue Before, goal added Some additional details: Hi thar, I’m a bit Concerned about my Phenom 955BE idling at 44C. Under a normal load (eg playing NFS Shift) it sits on around 58-61C. Under a CPU stress test it gets to about 69C max. Is this a bit too warm for this CPU? It’s on the stock cooler (the copper pipe one at least) The room is airconditioned (so about 22-23C) and the box HAS 5x 80mm fans (So the box temp is around 26C), and II have since Pulled out the heat-sink, Cleaned it perfectly, Applied some good thermal compound (Arctic Silver 5), it booted back up, STILL sitting on 44C idle and 55C Under normal load and 68C under stress test (prime 95 torture test) Do I need to buy aftermarket cooler year ( I really Did not want to!>. <)? Why is not the one with the AMD chip send out good enough? gold thesis speeds are really OK? Also the clock speeds are set to default (3. 2ghz) That I found in the BIOS SYSTEM WAS Able to auto adjust the voltage, so I disabled it, the CPU VCore set to 1. 35V (down from 1. 45V) Now it idles on 42C and 61C Stress tested – much better, aussi Did the CPU tests in 3DMark06 and Have not Lost Any performance. I’m trying to find what the recommended vCore voltage for this chip is. . . .